How to Make a Pop-Up Birthday Card: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Karen for Expert Village. I'm going to show you how to make a birthday cake pop card. This pop up card uses a slightly different technique where you use a single sheet of a card stock. You really need card stock for this technique. I'm going to use a half sheet. So here is my half sheet of card stock, you need a exacto knife, a pair of scissors, some marking pencils, some pens or decorative pencils to do some accent, a ruler and a simple pattern of a birthday cake. We are going to start with our half sheet of card stock. You want to fold that in half so you want to match the corners exactly and hold those down. Then just slide your hands to the edge and crease that line. Now turn it over and on the back we are going to measure a inch and a half from the center on both sides. I'm going to mark this, this is a dark card stock I'm going to mark it with a white marking pencil. I'm going to mark another inch and a half there and a inch and a half there. I'm going to move down, we are going a inch and a half from the center. A inch and a half here and a inch and a half here, and just draw a line through your two dots. Not too dark cause later you will want to erase that, if you don't want to see those lines. Okay so now you have two lines there. Now take your pattern and we are going to trace it but we are only going to trace the outside of the birthday cake. You put the center we folded up our pattern in half exactly and we are going to place that half crease right in the center crease of the card. We are only going to trace the outside of the cake. From everything outside of the line that you mark. So anything that over laps and is outside of that and you are just going to trace that much. There and then place that back and do trace only the other side. Everything on the outside of the line. So you have something that looks like that."